2. What the Heck Is It, and Why YOUR
Organization Should be Using It!
3. What is Twitter?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-
blogging service that allows its users to send
and read other users’ updates (otherwise
known as tweets), which are text-based posts
of up to 140 characters in length.
5. Why YOUR company should use
Twitter
Personal Branding
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Customer Service
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Direct Traffic to your website
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Monitor your product/brand
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Hire People
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6. Why YOUR company should use
Twitter
• Network
• Seek out industry colleagues for assistance
with special projects
• Better understand social media
• Notify your Customers
• Market work, products, services, etc.
7. Who should you follow?
Colleagues
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Friends
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Competitors
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Customers
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8. Twitter Search
http://search.twitter.com
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Allows you to monitor anything you can search.
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See what is being said about YOUR company
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Example: Marion’s Pizza
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18. Recap
Add content about events
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Retweet other great tweets
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Add tweets that are questions
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Add tweets that are great links
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Add your blog posts
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